Sister Quotes - Page 5

• Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don't want to leave anybody out.

  Malcolm X

  Brother, Believe, Justice

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it's your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most.

  Lisa See

  Hurt, Love You, Unique

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• My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four.

  Tracy Austin

  Opposites, Feet, Four

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• Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.

  Boyle Roche

  Brother, Two, England

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• The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

  Jane Austen

  Brother, Sibling, Pay

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.487, Wordsworth Editions

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• We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Real, Judging, Secret

  Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Viola in Reel Life”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• "I'm not going anywhere," she told me that night. But until we are old ladies-a cypress age, a Sawtooth age-I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love.

  Karen Russell

  Night, Age, Links

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• It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in.

  Beth Henley

  Winter, Years, Interesting

  "Expressing "The Misery and Confusion Truthfully": An Interview with Beth Henley". "American Drama" Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2005.

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• I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great.

  Susan Boyle

  Brother, Cat, Thinking

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• She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.

  Anthony Marra

  Bed, Rooms, Crosses

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• My sister and I never engaged in sibling rivalry. Our parents weren't that crazy about either one of us.

  Erma Bombeck

  Sibling, Crazy, Parent

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• I have two older sisters; I'm the youngest.

  Elizabeth Perkins

  Two, Older Sister

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• I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.

  Vince Vaughn

  Friends, Girl, Thinking

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• For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs.

  Bill McCartney

  Christian, Brother, Past

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• I've got two sisters and they're both married and they're both much more settled into the way things are.

  Ann Wilson

  Two, Way, Married

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• We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate.

  Eleanor Brown

  Book, Order, Kitchen

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• The chilly December day! two shivering bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio first felt their homemade contraption whittled out of hickory sticks, gummed together with Arnstein's bicycle cement, stretched with muslin they'd sewn on their sister's sewing machine in their own backyard on Hawthorn Street in Dayton, Ohio, soar into the air above the dunes and the wide beach at Kitty Hawk.

  John Dos Passos

  Beach, Air, Ohio

  John Dos Passos (2013). “The Big Money: Volume Three of the U.S.A. Trilogy”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the Union appears to us horrible to the last degree.

  Jane Swisshelm

  War, Ideas, Unity

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• One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched.

  H. L. Mencken

  Book, Smirk, Literature

  H.L. Mencken (1917). “A book of prefaces”, p.98, Рипол Классик

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• I'm the oldest and I've got two sisters.

  Lisa Snowdon

  Two, Two Sisters

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• Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

  Christian Lacroix

  Book, Our Generation, Paris

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• Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.

  Pam Brown

  Funny, Sibling, Forgiving

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• Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

  William Dean Howells

  Heart, Twins, Goodness

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• There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Sibling, Young, Old Time

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• Sisters share the scent and smells... the feel of a common childhood.

  Pam Brown

  Sibling, Smell, Childhood

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